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Climatologists regularly issue confident warnings about impending atmospheric disasters. The secret of their wizardry: sophisticated computer models, which are no more than mathematical representations of the world's climate and the conditions that scientists think may contribute to a specific phenomenon like, say, ozone depletion. Unfortunately, when all the variables...
For most of its 15-year history, Cray Research of Minneapolis has dominated the market for supercomputers, those $15 million, lightning number crunchers used for everything from the search for oil deposits to the design of nuclear weapons. The company has boasted two star computer engineers: Founder Seymour Cray, 62...
At 6 ft. 5 in., Douglas Adams may not be the best 35-year-old British science- fiction writer, but he is surely the tallest. So are his tales, from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, his wacko 1979 cult favorite, to this delightfully busy mystery, set in the...
Reagan's impending clash with the Senate over Robert Bork's nomination to the Supreme Court is expected to be a dramatic showdown. "Most people in the Senate haven't made up their minds," contends Chief of Staff Howard Baker, "and I think that's good." He predicts Bork will...
The major leak cited by North occurred, by his account, on April 14, 1986, when two Senators went directly from a White House briefing to waiting microphones and told the nation that the President would discuss an impending U.S. attack on Libya that night. That, claimed North, gave Libya time...